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Gibson Amphitheatre To Shut Down

Gibson Amphitheatre, the mainstay mid-size concert venue at Universal City, will close its doors in September, according to its operator Live Nation Entertainment. As announced in December 2011, the 6,200-capacity amphitheatre is expected to be demolished to make way for The Wizarding World of Har ... More >>

The Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Monday, February 25 The Residents EL REY THEATRE Somewhere between rock & roll's spiritual mystique and a distinctly unhinged surrealist pathology, you'll find the lair of bizarro-art-imitates-music tribe The Residents. Unprecedented, with no discernible frame of reference save for a magnificently ... More >>

Carry On My Wayard Son

The Best Concerts To See in L.A. This Weekend: Nov 9-11

Friday, November 9 Ute Lemper SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS Ute Lemper is already a masterful interpreter of sad/romantic/tragic balladry, whether she's bringing to life "Mack the Knife" and other cabaret chansons by Kurt Weill or transmuting the surly poetry of Charles Bukowski into song form. B ... More >>

The Sea & Cake, Matt Friedberger

Destroyer - The El Rey - 6-6-12

Destroyer The El Rey 6-6-12 Better than... chasing girls and cocaine through the backrooms of the world all night. Dan Bejar (the frontman and only permanent member of Destroyer) tosses out albums at a regular clip with sprawling pop songwriting, guitar hooks to spare, and arch lyrics about lust, ... More >>

We Try to Get Metalocalypse's Brendon Small to Do the Skwisgaar Voice

Brendon Small, Los Angeles-based mastermind of the Adult Swim animated series Metalocalypse, has many projects underway: in addition to overseeing the series' fourth season and voicing most of the main characters, he's preparing for the upcoming Dethklok tour by recording a new Dethklok album and cr ... More >>

The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All-Time: The Complete List

*Top 20 Worst Bands Ever: The Complete List *Top 20 Musicians of All-Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All-Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All-Time: The Complete List Considering that most all of today's popular music -- be it roc ... More >>

He's Stoller Than He Looks

The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All-Time: 15-11

See also: *Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All-Time: 20-16 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time 15. Michael McDonald A yacht-rock refugee, McDonald took the blandest elements of his former bands Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers -- smooth jazz keys, pinched falsetto harmonies, bass lines kidnapped from d ... More >>

Music Picks: Funk-a-Palooza, Keith Jarrett, Ute Lemper & the Vogler Quartet

Also, Hot Snakes, Strange Boys, Ken Parker, Flash Express and others

Fiona Apple and the Best of SXSW Yesterday

​See also: Five Attractive Strange People Working for Tips at SXSW If you're familiar with chaos theory, which in its basic form is the attempt to find patterns in the random acts of shit on Earth, then you may understand the difficulty that comes with describing a full day at SXSW. To break down ... More >>

Top 5 Steely Dan Songs About L.A.

See also: Steely Dan Fans Are Assholes I've long considered Steely Dan the ultimate Los Angeles band. Proof? They're not actually from here, like almost half the city. Like the best Angelenos, they have a healthy hatred for the entertainment industry. And, like all transplants, their memories of th ... More >>

Steely Dan Fans Are Assholes

William Gibson called them "the most genuinely subversive" band in late-20th Century pop. Bryan Cranston sneaks winking references to them into Malcolm In The Middle and Breaking Bad episodes. Ice Cube sampled them and The Roots play them on Jimmy Fallon. Who are they? The gold standard in rock and ... More >>

Chef Jonathan Waxman: KCRW Guest DJ Set

The latest chef to step behind the virtual turntable at KCRW is Jonathan Waxman, who returns to his Southern California roots in his set for the radio station's Guest DJ Project. Waxman, the chef/owner of Barbuto in New York City and author Italian My Way, has a short but diverse list that includes ... More >>

Bizarre Ride: Jeff Weiss's Five Los Angeles Music Archetypes

[Editor's note: Longtime Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's new column, "Bizarre Ride," begins today. You can find it on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] The L.A. cliché is a war of shadow and light: fallen stars gone to seed, saccharine pop and gangsta rap. But this is 2012 and Dr. Dre is a headphone g ... More >>

Mary J. Blige, Larry Carlton, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

Also, Peanut Butter Wolf, Lucy Woodward, Chromeo and others

No Age - MOCA - 8/7/11

David GreenwaldNo Age performs at MOCA​No Age MOCA 8/7/11 Better than... A Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. Sunday night's show was a strangely modern intersection of corporate invasion and countercultural retaliation: No Age, L.A.'s leading independent experimentalists, clos ... More >>

Live Review: Steve Vai and Joe Satriani at House of Blues

Ian Cohen​ Review by Ian Cohen WHO: Steve Vai and Joe Satriani WHERE: House of Blues WHEN: 7/10/11 "They don't make 'em like they used to." "Lion of the industry." Those are the sort of old salts that probably would be sprinkled about upon the mention of ailing music biz vet Cliff Cultrer ... More >>

Music Picks: Tinariwen, Colbie Caillat, A.R. Rahman, Best Coast

Also, Monopoly, David Bazan, Gravespawn and others

Music Picks: Roseanne Cash, Theophilus London, Acid Mothers Temple

Also, George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, Raphael Saadiq, Wu Man and others

What's Your Dirtiest Jason Bentley Sexual Fantasy?

Jason Bentley: sexxxy voice, sexxxy look (wait, isn't that "Blue Steel"?!?!?!)​We were talking to an acquaintance (female, late 30s, educated, divorced) and she was telling us that one of the main reasons she listens to NPR every morning has to do with... well, the tingly feelings she gets fro ... More >>

A Conversation with Posdnuos of De La Soul: On Nike Run Mixes, The Current State of Hip-Hop and Oodles of O's

De La Soul, back in the day Only a handful of rap groups can be bandied about as G.O.A.T: Wu-Tang, Outkast, EPMD, Tribe Called Quest, Public Enemy, Run-DMC, UGK, The Geto Boys, and De La Soul. If you need an introduction to the De La -- Posdnuos, Dave/Trugoy the Dove, and Maseo -- you obviously hav ... More >>

Ticketmaster LiveNation: Take the #4 Bus from HQ to HQ

View Larger Map Well, it makes sense on a practical level. All you have to do is zip down San Vincente from Ticketmaster's WeHo HQ on Sunset, hang a right on Santa Monica and bingo, a few blocks past the Troubadour is LiveNation's Beverly Hills HQ. Or, in these lean times, executives can just catch ... More >>

The 1921A's 'Drunkyard Percussion'

A band of McCabe's workers conjures American urban noise out of guitars, kitchen utensils, pie pans

USC Thornton School of Music Announces New Popular Music Performance Program

Wanna be famous as a superstar musician? Learn how to bed groupies by the sheer force and magnetism of your stage strut? Find out which hallucinogens will help best develop the plot of your career-defining Concept Album? Before now, you'd have bang your head against your snare a few times, have to s ... More >>

First Thoughts on Kanye West's 808s & Heartbreak

"You can't judge me on this because it's a reflection of my heart and soul. It's like judging a grandmother's love. Can you judge a grandmother's love by giving it 2.5 mics, or saying that it only sold a million?"--Kanye West, directly after the first unveiling of Heartbreak & 808s So Kanye's ... More >>

Northwest Passage: Seattle's Fleet Foxes Make Languid, Woodsy Rock

Can a flutist be far behind?

Behind the Velvet Fence

Prince of the desert; VIP couch; and other tales from Coachella

Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#20-16)

20. Jens Lekman-Night Falls Over Kortedala [Secretly Canadian] On first listen, Jens Lekman reminds you of Morrissey. Like the ex-Smith's frontman, the 26-year old Swede's got a rich baritone warble, a sly wit and a penchant for moony-eyed romanticism. But that's where the similarities stop. Lekma ... More >>

Sea Level Records (2001–2007)

Wake me up before you go-go

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Band on the Run

Unsigned local group finds fame, fortune, Duran Duran in the U.K.

Ghosts

Photos of Ghosts

The Contemporaries

Time of the Session

When the music was fast, and the players anonymous

Good Vibrations

Some great sessions

The Other Music A-Z

Pander's Box

We asked for it; Jane’s Addiction reopened it

Popularity Contest

Fountains of Wayne, on the bus

Hear and Now in L.A.

Department of Homegirl Security

You’re either with me or against me

Cranky, the Wallflowers This Time of Year

Melting in the Rain

Turn the Tide

Dive In

The Drinkin’s Fine

Wavemakers

At work and play in musical L.A.

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